Are you serious....
>>the hooks on the album, I just couldn't find a single that could be pushed to compete with today's artist.<<

Sorry soulja but today's artist DON'T OFFER ANY COMPETITION. Donnie's album would blow these sugar-coated commercial formula catz out of the water. The tragedy here is that the music industry has such a tight grip on the minds/appeal of Afrikan-Americans that Afrikan-Americans don't know REAL Afrikan-American music when they hear it. Have you noticed the schism in our music today. The science that is strategically used is called CONDITIONED ATTRACTION & CONDITIONED REACTION. The consumers ATTRACTION to a watered-down false repre- of R&B and Soul is CONDITIONED by constant repetition of mediocre music via radio and video. The consumers sometime stoic/more times negative REACTION to REAL Black music is CONDITIONED. In other words the Afrikan-American music consumer who isn't careful may be the victim of some serious pimpin'. Hence our sometimes passionate and overwhelming response to catz like Donnie,(for those that know the real) because we've been submerged in a sea of Bullshit and these REAL MUSIC catz are the equivalent of a life jacket. The industry has us so blind to our cultural music legacy that a brotha can play a samba(a rhythm from WEST AFRIKA) on his record and critics will call it Latin.
We gotta know our music, embrace it, and hold on to it.
peace.